The best of Photo London, Somerset House, 2018
Photo London, the UK's largest selling exhibition of the best (and the worst) photography from all over the world, is back.
Now in its fourth year, the glamorous fair has, once again, taken over the whole of Somerset House for four days. There's an embarrassment of riches on display – more than 118 galleries are exhibiting – and certainly no way to see everything.
So, we've selected a few highlights. From new installations by stage-set designer Es Devlin to Nickolas Muray's Frida Kahlo prints, these are the must-see works at Photo London 2018.
'Big Sue' – the plus-size model in Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – is now the subject of a new large-scale video sculpture by contemporary artist Charlotte Colbert. For this multi-media project, Colbert filmed Sue Tilley in the same position and in the same studio where Freud first painted her in 1995. As in Freud's painting, Sue's rolls of flesh spill about the frame in the most visceral and unadulterated of ways. Colbert's utterly captivating reinterpretation of Freud's famous portrait is the focus of Gazelli Art House's solo presentation at Photo London.
Image: Charlotte Colbert, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 2018. Courtesy of Culture Whisper.
